• Subspecies of Iridomyrmex discors: Emery, 1913a: 24; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 98; Taylor, 1987a: 31; Shattuck, 1994: 103; Bolton, 1995b: 218.
• Status as species: Shattuck, 1996a: 42 (redescription); Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 115 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Iridomyrmex discors obscurior

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
• Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1996a. Revision of the Iridomyrmex discors species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35:37-42. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.